PERSONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 233, 11 March 1915, Page 4

PERSONAL.

! A Paris cablegram reports that Ma* dame Sarah Bernhardt is convalescent.

Mr Richmond i'ell has heen. eleotwl president ol the A'eisun Chamber of Conmieiee—a positiou which, both hi* father ana grandfatner had filled. » ■

Mr Chas. S. Kelly, formerly of. New Plymouth and Stratford, writes from Albany to a friend in New Plymouth: -"All doing well; nothing to report."

Mr Gladstone Ward, third son of Sir Joseph 'Ward, nas decided, to go boms and offer to the War Office his .services at the front. Mr Ward will leave for England t>y the lluauine oa Thursday.

Mr Marcus Simeon, of • Melbourne (brother of .Mr J\ I'. Simeon, of Wei. lingtoii), is visiting th« city after an senee or torcy-nino years, forty-Jby of which have Seen spent la Queensland.

Word has been received in Bulls by Mr J. McDonald, of the death, of his sonj Mr Alister McDonald, who left New Zealand for .England with a consignment, of horses, and then joined the Foreign!' Legion. He was working a battery with eighteen others near -Antwerp,' when tuey were fflown w pieces b« .■ shell. ":•!

Mr Sten Hurle, writing to his parentsfrom, London on January 15, says that he has 'been admitted to the Public Schools Battalion of the Royal Kiailiers, and was going into carnrj at Bpeom in the following week. He just missed the cnance of joining the New, Zeal anders who went to Egypt front England, but hones to be on the Continent in the spring.

Tho death look place on Sunday of as old and widely-r<-spe«ted resident of Auckland in the -persons of Mrs. Anna Maria ooinertteld,: wife of the late Mr Frederick .""amen Somerfield. Mrs Som, ] erfteld arrived is Auckland in the sail* ing ship ZealandiS on February 14, 1861; and she and her husbaml were very well known in the Thames during the early i .days of tn« Thames Gold Sal.is. They later resided at Cevonport, where Mr Sonur field was one of the originators of the ferry service, having been a partner in the old paddle steamer Devonport. The deceased had. resided at Elierflhe and Rettiiera for the past 30 years, "and was Kno-nn to have a w ide circle of friend*. * ;

Among tiie passengers by the Niagara, which arrived at Auckland recently was his Excellency tht; newiy-appointed Got. i cinor of Queensland, Major Sir Hamil« ton Goold-Adams, G.C.M.G., the Higbj Conirmsioner ot Cyprus. Sir Hamilton Gfiold-Atlams wa<f in command of thfl force wnich accompanied the Commissioner on tin.- mission to Lobengudai when a charter for Md colonisation ol tiie country now Know an Khodeaii was secured on behalf of Mr Cecil Rhodes., At one stage oi the journey tfcey were (surrounded by 4,000 excited Jtelauoie warriors, and would have been massacred but for the talk and forbearance of th,o commander of the force. He subsequently sewed with the' Beehuanalanc! Expedition under Sir Charles Warrenf in .1884; he also commanded the field force against the Matabele in IBS 3, and was* for' a time Resident Commissioneß of the Bechuanaland Protectorate, He served in the South African war of JSII9 1901 war, and became LieutenantGovernor of tiie Urangc River Colony, in 1901. and in 1007 Governor, a poai* "' tion whicti he occupied until his transi ference. to' Cyprus m 1911. His JSxceL s '' leney's military and administrative experience will tie of great service in connection with the responsible duties that have been thrown upon the Com- ' ' monwealth through- the recent occupation of German territory in New Guinea end the Western Pacific Islands.